1. Albert Brooks was born on Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22,1947 and is an American actor, director and screenwriter.
30 Facts About Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1987 comedy-drama film Broadcast News and was widely praised for his performance in the 2011 action drama film Drive.
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Albert Brooks has written, directed, and starred in several comedy films, such as Modern Romance, Lost in America, and Defending Your Life.
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Albert Brooks is the author of 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America.
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Albert Brooks has voiced several characters in animated films and television shows.
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Albert Brooks's voice acting roles include Marlin in Finding Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory, Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets, and several one-time characters in The Simpsons, including Hank Scorpio in "You Only Move Twice" and Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie.
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Albert Brooks grew up among show business families in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner.
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Albert Brooks quickly became a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was on the writing staff for the ill-fated ABC show Turn-On, which was cancelled after one episode.
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Albert Brooks led a new generation of self-reflective baby-boomer comics appearing on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Albert Brooks had already made his first short film, The Famous Comedians School, a satiric short and an early example of the mockumentary subgenre that was aired in 1972 on the PBS show The Great American Dream Machine.
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In 1975, Albert Brooks directed six short films for the first season of NBC's Saturday Night Live.
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In 1976, he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in Martin Scorsese's landmark Taxi Driver; Scorsese allowed Albert Brooks to improvise much of his dialogue.
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Albert Brooks directed his first feature film, Real Life, in 1979, which he co-wrote with Harry Shearer and Monica Johnson.
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The film, in which Albert Brooks films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.
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Albert Brooks appeared in the film Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn.
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Albert Brooks's best-received film, the satirical road movie Lost in America, featured Brooks and Julie Hagerty as a couple who leave their yuppie lifestyle and drop out of society to live in a motor home as they have always dreamed of doing, meeting disappointment.
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Albert Brooks's Defending Your Life placed his lead character in the afterlife, put on trial to justify his human fears and determine his cosmic fate.
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Albert Brooks garnered positive reviews for Mother, which starred Brooks as a middle-aged writer moving back home to resolve tensions between himself and his mother.
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Albert Brooks is described as the best guest star in the show's history by IGN, particularly for his role as supervillain Hank Scorpio in the episode "You Only Move Twice".
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Albert Brooks acted in other writers' and directors' films during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Albert Brooks had a cameo in the opening scene of Twilight Zone: The Movie, playing a driver whose passenger has a shocking secret.
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Albert Brooks received positive reviews for his portrayal of a dying retail store owner who befriends a disillusioned teenager in My First Mister.
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Albert Brooks continued his voiceover work in Pixar's Finding Nemo, as the voice of Marlin, one of the film's protagonists.
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Albert Brooks portrayed Lenny Botwin, Nancy Botwin's estranged father-in-law, during the 2008 season of the Showtime series Weeds.
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Albert Brooks co-starred as the vicious gangster Bernie Rose, the main antagonist in the 2011 film Drive, alongside Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.
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Albert Brooks's performance received much critical praise and positive reviews.
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Albert Brooks voiced Tiberius, a curmudgeonly red-tailed hawk, in the 2016 film The Secret Life of Pets, and reprised the role of Marlin in Finding Dory the same year.
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In 2019, Albert Brooks did not return to do the voice of Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets 2, because he was not available.
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Later that month, on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Albert Brooks supplemented the biographical information in the documentary with additional stories from his life.
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In 1997, Albert Brooks married artist Kimberly Shlain, daughter of surgeon and writer Leonard Shlain.